[mythtv-users] how does mythtv get the hauppauge hdprv 1212 to work reliably?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 16:35:59 UTC 2014


The web page http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
says: The HD-PVR previously had problems gracefully dealing
with resolution changes but those issues have been fixed in
MythTV.

Can anyone tell me exactly how those issues were fixed?

If I just do a "cat /dev/video0 > temp.ts" it seems
to eventually pause and stop reading data (though
it doesn't get an error, it just hangs in the read).

I can make it happen easily by hooking the output
from my TiVo to the hdpvr and then wandering around
the TiVo menus for a while.

I'd really like to implement an occasional capture
solution smaller than installing mythtv :-).

On a related note, are there release notes anywhere
for the different versions of the firmware? My box
came with 0x18 on it, and I wonder if the newer version
that is available would be worth installing? (I'm
always leery of installing firmware unless I actually
know it will help).


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